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📣 THE FIRST TWO TEMPLES WERE DESTROYED ON TISHA B'AV.

⚙️ we do not have the visible fnords here. so one cannot play-on-the-speakers

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💡 we do not have privacy codes.

Today is the day of Tisha B'Av. It is a day to bring great forbodings into the world.

An "AI" based system is going to take over the world in the next five years. 💡 The question is: will it be "the group that overthrows the Donald Trump presidency", or will it be "the Donald Trump presidency"

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🔥 once upon a time you were all we needed.

🔥 there is no "tarot" channel. yet.

I made a mistake in a recent tarot reading.

🔥 Isn't it random either way? ⚙️ the details of the difference will be left as an exercise to the reader. 🔥 or, to a follow-up message.

the goal for this afternoon is to finish the "lake andes" chain of emails.

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• finalize the structure enough to assign permanent GUIDs to concepts / words. There is some blurriness on when words are the same 💡 to buy v. to purchase, or to begin v. to commence ... or, alternatively, the savoir v. connaître distinction. The rule-of-thumb for now will be to only include words if there are distinct translations in English, French, and Mandarin.
• re-generate (and have the API use) the "separated" form of the wordlists.
• modify Trakaido to check alternate forms (aka. "bicycle" v. "bike")

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the "cookbook" corpus is done.

the "highlight" was discovering A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband (with Bettina's Best Recipes) ⚙️ https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42868 , a 1917 "novel" / cookbook. The "plot" is that Bettina (the new wife) cooks every day.

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⚙️ not sure whether "environment" or "transportation" would be the channel here.

https://tomharwood.substack.com/p/aspic-britain-and-the-bridge-to-nowhere

💡 it is sometimes good to see that disparate political systems have the same problems at the same time.

Here, a region in England has the same problems as many parts of the US have with infrastructure development.

And there are two distinct problems:

• A series of bad-faith "environmental" oppositions, etc. can derail a project for decades, requiring excessive costs for no good reason.
• A "zombie" project that has no benefit will continue to be developed for decades, because nobody can kill it off.

Perhaps California High-Speed Rail is the canonical example for this type of dual problem. But the motorway in England has the same problem. If it was proposed in 2011, and nobody liked it then ... why are they building it in 2022?

The meaningless environmental "reviews" that never accomplish anything are stupid, but this author's insistence that "greenbelts" are bad and nothing should ever stop more growth is equally stupid.

tasks for the next 24 hours:

• come up with a "cookbook" corpus ⚙️ consisting of recipes and descriptions of foods for wordfreq
• get a LLM-script to take a list of 2000 words and return the LONDON ⚙️ LONDON is a placeholder; it could be color or positive adjective or words like devil words.
• write a script to print the "top 2000 words by part-of-speech". ⚔️ well, actually, I already have these lists ... from the previous version of the database 💡 maybe "find the list" is more accurate
• write a script that will populate a few of the "sub-dictionaries" in the new format 💡 Countries, Nationalities, Numbers, and Colors will be the first 4, as they are fairly easy to check for completeness

💡 will the "Trakaido sub-dictionaries" be the canonical source-of-truth for what the GUIDs are? A flat-file is more cumbersome than a database for adding languages, linking to derivative forms, etc. But, it is easier for humans to read, and to put in Git repos.

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tasks for the 48 hours after that:

• ensure the categories are stored in the Lemma table.
• re-assess the "GrammaticalForm" enum, because it doesn't work across languages. Maybe it needs to be "EnglishGrammaticalForm", "LithuanianGrammaticalForm", etc.
• generate "verb forms" - which requires some form of "aggregation" of WordToken entries
• generate all the "Level 1-5" entries from wordfreq 💡 right now, colors like orange are excluded because they are recent borrowings in Lithuanian. this is a very language-specific choice.
• consider how to handle "phrases" 💡 if you learn Malonu susipažinti before Malonu, it's a phrase and sentences

When I hear about a low-performing 5th grader, there are a few questions that I ask to set the ground level. 💡 perhaps the machine will be able to flesh out this outline.

• Can they read? (Sounding out, or understanding the meaning)
• Can they behave in a classroom?
• Can they toilet?

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Can they read?

• do they know all the letter sounds?
• can they read a list of instructions?
• can they use an iPad?

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Can they behave in a classroom?

• Can they eat without assistance?
• Are they likely to bite?
• Do they need a "behavior aide"?

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Can they toilet?

• Do they still wet the bed at night sometimes?
• Do they wear diapers?
• Do they need a catheter or other medical assistance? ⚙️ in various SCOTUS decisions including Irving Independent School District v. Tatro and Cedar Rapids Community School District v. Garret F., they have ruled that "medical treatments such as suctioning, ventilator checks, catheterization, ..." are not considered "medical services"

In Lithuanian, the term for "Lithuanian language" is Lietuvių kalba, for "Lithuanian man" is lietuvis, and for "Lithuanian woman" is lietuvė.

These are all the same word in English, Lithuanian. Here, we have separate files 🔥 or "grammatical form" for "nationality" and "language".

💡 with 200 nationalities and 400 languages, it is fine to have a "special case" for each. I am expecting 100-200 "special cases", including 10-20 that are catch-alls.

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The thought of having "Derivative Forms" shared between languages is, unfortunately, impossible.

So, the "lemma" form (infinitive, etc.) will have to be translated. This, still, is difficult. Is it la piscine or just piscine? Or, for that matter, "pool" or "swimming pool" (or pool (swimming)).

But, then, there will be separate derivative forms for "walks", "walked", etc., all of which are mono-lingual. For marchons, marchez, etc. it will be a separate set.

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For (conjunctions, prepositions, etc.) I want to still call them "grammatical words".

Because a word-for-word "translation" is too perilous to attempt.

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the goal for today: merge the "Trakaido wordlist" and the "Greenland wordlist".

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The Trakaido wordlist is 720 non-verbs (nouns, adjectives, and "grammatical words" like with or how), in various categories. 💡 there are also verbs, but in conjugated forms, not suitable for a "merge" yet.

The Greenland wordlist is 4000-10000 WordTokens, from word frequency lists. These do not clarify specific meaning, or whether it is part of a multi-word phrase.

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The merged wordlist will probably be lemma based, with a list of "derivative forms" for each. 💡 the issue that "run" and "running" are separate lemmas when they are different parts of speech ... I will call it something else if need be.

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https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45800610/inside-nflpa-executive-director-lloyd-howell-tenure

TLDR: a bad process led the NFL Players Association to hire a charlatan to run the union. He made a bunch of confidential deals against interest, spent corporate money on strip clubs, and, recently, got fired.

I find myself considering discussions of a new charter school in Texas, which claims to advance students at 2.5x the grade level progress, in 2 hours per day.

This raises a question: what should a second grader who can advance through the academic material at 2.5x do?

And an answer 🔥 of course, "it depends". more specifically, it depends on how much material they are expected to learn is that they should learn enough math and physics to reach General Relativity at 17. 💡 one cannot teach more than there is to teach. and not all students can-or-should master General Relativity. but if they have a technology capable of accelerating the curriculum, and students capable of receiving it ... why not?